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Monday, April 25, 2016

I recently started a Baroque Space Opera campaign with my gaming group. We decided on an "Agents of Change" story (from the Running the Game chapter) and proceeded with character creation. Creating characters was a lot of fun for everyone, and this is what we came out.

The group are individuals who are tied together by their want to change things. The Tyrantine Dominion must change, or fall. The current regime cannot continue due to it's oppressiveness. The Tyrant Sun is truly a tyrant who must fall.

Iblis Jinn

Iblis Jinn is a 4,000 year old Amarenthine who was granted the Gift of Immortality by the Tyrant for his great advances in bio-technosophy that is used in terraforming. The Jinn Syndicate is solely controlled by Iblis and it develops many technologies that are used on many planets from quick-growing micro-plankton that transforms the atmosphere, to bio-scuba suits that envelop the wearer and act as a breathing and protective suit deep underwater. The Jinn Syndicate has recently began experimenting with bio-ships, and The Cimarron is the first such vessel, with many such bio-enhancements. Iblis enjoys a great party, as often as possible, which he often hosts aboard his personal voidship, The Cimarron. He is well known in Pharisto circles for his vast wealth and extravagant parties.

A stain on Iblis' legacy is the planet Cauldron. He was overseeing its terraforming when things went awry and the experimental bio-technology the Jinn Syndiate produced went rogue and released into Cauldron's atmosphere uncontrolled amounts of carbon dioxide. Shortly after, the run-away greenhouse effect turned the atmosphere turbulent and corrosive. Iblis regrets this stain on his long and glorious history.

High Concept: Amarenthine Elevationist of House Mar-Duk
Trouble: The Shame of Cauldron
Driving Goal: Love and Life
Aspect: Never Says No to a Party
Aspect: I have More Bio-technology Than You Can ImagineGreat (+4): ResourcesGood (+3): Empathy, PresenceFair (+3): Technosophy, Influence, ShootAverage (+1): Pilot, Drive, Science, Stealth

Stunts:

Jinn Syndicate Overseer

Awakened Prana

Gift of Immortality

Refresh: 3Equipment (Non-Beneficial): Shimmering Veil, Projector

Physical: [1][2]
Mental: [1][2]
Wealth: [1][2][3][4]

Motezart

Motezart is a secretive Transmuter who is obsessed with finding a way to end the Tyrant's immortality through his Revenants. Motezart seeks to uncover the secrets of self-replicating Dust, and find a way to combine it with Iblis' bio-technology to locate and destroy the samples of the Tyrant's cells, held in secret by the Genesis Adepts. Motezart also seeks to gain allies and resources to aid him in his task. He seeks any and all advantages against the Tyrant, in secret, of course!

High Concept: Transmuter Seeking to Transmute the System
Trouble: Challenge the Status Quo
Driving Goal: Permanent Death of the Tyrant
Aspect: Secrets Need Discovering
Aspect: Tech as Strategy

Nazith

Nazith is a Mirror Man who was once gifted to Iblis Jinn during one of his parties. Nazith is a loyal servant of Iblis and Iblis has used him on many occasions to impersonate Iblis, when the threat of danger has lurked. Nazith serves as Iblis' chief infiltrator and has used his shape-shifting abilities to infiltrate rivals and to spy on enemies.

Daan "Kai"

Daan, also known as "Kai" is a Remnant who was awakened on a drifting troop transport from the time of the First Nihilim Invasions. by the Elevated from a mining colony on a minor resource extraction operation on an unnamed planet. Daan joined the colony and for the first time in his life since the change to a Remnant many millennia. Life was good, until the Dominion Fleet arrived on rumours that the Arch Heretic Nemesis was active within the colony. The fleet, under the orders of the Amarenthine Brogar ordered the utter annihilation of the colony. Daan survived because he was in the mines when the bombardment began. He dug himself out of the mines and swore revenge on Brogar. His signal was picked up by The Cimarron and he was picked up. Finding common cause with Iblis, he now travels with the Amarenthine, hoping one day, he will have a chance to exact revenge on Brogar.

The Cimarron

The Cimarron is the flagship of the Jinn Syndicate and personal barge of the Amarenthine Iblis Jinn. The vessel hosts the famous Gardens of Jinn, which are known for their splendour, beauty, as well as rare and unique species of plant developed by the Syndicate. The vessel also serves as a first-class mobile laboratory for the Jinn Syndicate. The voidship carries many marines to provide security and the Ophanim of the ship is Ezeekiel who is loyal to Iblis through multiple generations of captains.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

The Tyrant has decreed that this is a time of love and happiness! Now and through February, Baroque Space Opera is 30% OFF digital and print (after print costs). Get your copy before the Arch Heretics do!

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The book is available in hardcover and softcover versions. If you have purchased the PDF prior to the print being available, you will receive a code with a discount equivalent to purchasing the PDF and print via email. I just need to figure out how to manage that with the DRTRPG tools provided first.

Friday, December 18, 2015

Today the print proofs for the hardcover and softcover versions of Baroque Space Opera have arrived. They look incredible. I am finally holding my own physical book! The colours all came out amazing in print.

Unfortunately, I immediately noticed I need to make some quick tweaks. A few of the full-page sized images got trimmed with a bit of white at the top of the page in the hardcover (the softcover looks good so far). I did not cover the full bleed area for when a page is trimmed (damn newbie mistake I won't make again). There is also a typo I want to fix that was reported after the proofs went to print. I'm hoping this will be approved by next week, but it may take long because of the holidays. Still, I'd rather not rush and provide the best possible looking book I can. I will also make the background grid patterns on the cover a bit more prominent, they are a bit dark for what I wanted them to look like.

Friday, November 20, 2015

I've been fortunate to be asked to participate in the Fate Bundle of Holding +3. Baroque Space Opera is now bundled with many awesome books from Evil Hat. This bundle is the perfect way to get started with Fate.

The Fate Bundle includes:

Fate Core and Fate Accelerated

Atomic Robo

Baroque Space Opera

Unwritten: Adventures in the Ages of MYST

Part-Time Gods of Fate

Hunters of Alexandria

Venture City Stories

Behind the Walls

Psychedemia

Eagle Eyes

Gods & Monsters

Sails Full of Stars

Fate Codex V2 #1-3 (Magpie Games)

But wait, there's more!

I am going to be giving out a printed Baroque Space Opera map in poster size that I got printed to a random lucky person who pays more than the bonus threshold when the bundle ends on Wed, Dec 2nd, 2015.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

I have created a Voidship (space ship) sheet for Baroque Space Opera to match the style of the character sheet. I have tried to keep it as clean and clutter free as possible. Feel free to post any feedback you may have.

Saturday, October 3, 2015

The first iteration of the Baroque Space Opera character sheet was too busy. It tried to be too much, when you really just want to track your character. It looked nice, but was too stylized. This second iteration is a lot cleaner, more focused, and better structured -- I think. Let me know what you think?